T206 Collectors Survey

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Posted By: Dave

I thought it would be interesting to note of the T206 collectors how involved each person is..and for how long you've been involved with T206's? Does it seem like the competition is getting stiffer for cards?

How long have you been collectiong T206's in a serious manner?

1 A. 0-6 months
B. 6 months - 1 year
C. 1-4 years
D. 5-10 years
E. Since they were printed


How close are you to the set?

2 A. 0-5 percent **Damn this set is going to be easy**
B. 5-10% **Hmm, well I better settle in for a long ride**
C. 10-25% **I'm only this far?**
D. 25-50% **Why did they have to print over 500?**
E. 50-75% **Look at all those suckers at 5%**
F 75-100% **Maybe the fourth set will be tougher**

Myself...#1 I fall in category B..since last summer
#2 Also category B...right near 10%...damn not easy

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Posted By: Marc S.

5-10 years....

but I'm not collecting the set, I'm collecting a team subset with different advertising backs. Most seriously for the past 18 months -- but thankfully I made an effort to pick up an Uzit and two Lenox backs a few years ago.

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Posted By: Mike Ernst

I completed the set (less what was then the big three, now the big 4, since the Doyle wasn't known) between 1971 (when I bought about 1100 T-205s and T-206s for $20). I'm still a T-206 collector, but I don't fit any of your profiles.

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Posted By: Dave

1,100 for $20?? Was that sort of the going rate for a group of 1100 at that time or was that even a steal? Wow.

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Posted By: Ed McCollum

Started in 1989. By 1998, had 165 of the cards, including 15 backs, a Demmitt and O'Hara. But a bad business decision in '98 brought it all to a halt. I've gotten three cards since. At this rate, I will be very, very old before I complete the set.

(If anyone has a Green Cobb (the last one of the four I need)that has been ripped in half, eaten by the family gerbil, then abused, I'd be interested. Anything above that condition wouldn't fit with most of the rest of my collection, or my price range. I seriously mean beater.)

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Posted By: Jason Carota

5 months/6% complete.

Because of other areas of my collecting focus, I plan on a slow build-up of the set.

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Posted By: JimB

Started in 1980.
Completed in 2005.
Took a 10-12 year break in the middle for extracurricular activities like Grateful Dead concerts.
I suppose I am an E for category 1 and an F for category 2.
JimB

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Posted By: Dave

My brother and I are about 35% finished with two sets. started avidly collecting in the late 80's.

Hey Jim...my brother followed the Dead around for several summers, and he worked with Bruce Hornsby too

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Posted By: Frank Wakefield

1. D/E, about 1985ish...

2. F 98.46% to 520. Lack 8. Hmmmm, 2 a year and I'm done in 4 years.


Frank.

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Posted By: MVSNYC

15+ years...

at one point i was about 50% complete...low grade, rare variations, rare backs, etc...over the last few years, i had sold most of them to refocus on high grade...recently i have been getting back to my roots, starting to build the monster in low-mid grade...

look out Dave, you are gonna have some competiton now...

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Posted By: jP

C & C

my collection: http://s102.photobucket.com/albums/m95/obaks/

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Posted By: Dave

Michael, I'm really putting up with all the competition I can right now. If you don't mind keep looking for PSA 10's for a while, maybe another eight or nine years? I just need to get a good running head start here. Ha Ha

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Posted By: Martin Neal

My original purchase of T206s were in the late 1980's. I really didn't collect them in earnest until late 2001. Last year, I was at 501 cards, 23 cards to go. Now, I am at 438. I wish I hadn't sold any of my cards but I had a bit of a focus problem. Now, I have resigned myself to collect both the T205 and the T206 sets. I am 53, so I should be able to do it before I die. So, I guess I am D and F.

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Posted By: RayB

D&D.
RayB

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Posted By: Judson Hamlin

Started in 1990, tougher backs only since 93 or so.
508 cards into it.

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Posted By: Al C.risafulli

C, but only by accident. I've got about 60 or 70 different T206s, but I'm not actually collecting the set. I just buy them once in a while because I like them so much.

I am working on a set of T206 HOFers; I believe I have about 20 or so at this point. I'd like to get one of each HOFer to start, and see where that takes me. I'm still missing a bunch, though, so I think it will take a while.

-Al

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Posted By: Dave

Started collecting the set seriously about 6 months ago and I am about 46% complete. Don't have a lot of Hall of Famers yet, but I am always looking.

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Posted By: T206Collector

D. 5-10 years
G. 520 cards -- 99% completion (I've got Magie, Demmitt and O'Hara, but I don't have Wagner, Plank, Doyle or Johnson portrait).

I sold my Johnson and some other cards to afford my Magie. I've replaced all the T206 cards I sold except for the Johnson. I keep meaning to reacquire one, but I'm having difficulty settling.

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Posted By: Marty Ogelvie

A/A



martyOgelvie
nyyankeecards.com

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Posted By: Darren

Bought my first T206 in 1981 and I'm about 90% toward completion. I do collect multiples with different backs as well(master set mania).

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Posted By: Mike Snyder

5-10 years. Only collecting T206s that are appealing to me in medium to higher grade...Chance, Huggins, Cobb, Johnson, etc

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Posted By: Eric Brehm

I started about a year ago, and have 40 of the HOFers. That's about 53% of the HOF subset, and about 8% of the whole set.

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Posted By: Mike Ernst

In response to Dave's question above about 1100 for $20--that was very cheap then, too. The owner was a retired farmer outside of Max, North Dakota. (I was interning in Minot the 1971-972 school year--that year was the longest decade of my life). The owner indicated that he had gotten these as a kid in New York city, and that he had kept them, just in the hope of finding someone who could use them. I'll never forget him pouting them out of an old Corn Flakes box onto the oilskin tablecloth in his farmhouse kitchen. He wanted very much to give them to me, and I had to force the $20 on him. A good memory!

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Posted By: peter chao

Categories, C and A. Mike, that's quite a deal you got there. With all the publicity the T206s have recieved, I doubt that people will be "giving" away those cards in the future.

Last weekend I saw an Addie Joss portrait in good condition selling for $300. I'm looking at the card and thinking...if I'm really going to make an effort to complete this set, it's going to cost an arm and a leg.

Peter

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Posted By: Jason L

Although that is somewhat misleading, as I have no desire to complete the Monster (at least not at this time)
My other collecting goals are too taxing for me to attempt that!

So I concentrate on the Cubs cards in VG or VG/EX
Even this is appearing to be too lofty a goal, since there's 36 Cubs cards, and about half of those are HOFers

oh well, you gotta have a quest, right?
if it weren't this, it would be something else!

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Posted By: Dave

Certainly if you ever feel the need to recreate the memory by all means I'll rent the farmhouse and force the $20 on you as well..ha ha

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Posted By: barry arnold

D---though, i picked up my first ones in 1982

F---around 96%; and taking my time now.


all the best,

barry

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Posted By: Scott T

I have been working on the set for about 4 years and am at 93% currently. (very low grades, but I enjoy them!)

Scott

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Posted By: MVSNYC

i guess the follow-up question to all, should be...

are your near sets raw or slabbed?

what condition overall are the cards?

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Posted By: Jim Rivera

started collecting when i got a cobb bat off and a set of 9 baltimore players in the early 90s.
have about 90% of the set and over 600 cards- trying to complete the set with at least 10 examples of each back and no i don't have a cobb back or any of the old mill error backs.

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Posted By: Ed McCollum

All the cards I've purchased have been raw.

But just last month, I sent my first submissions to SGC. I sent my best looking card, then a Lenox, Tolstoi, Uzit and Carolina Brights just because, when I'm dead, I want my son to wonder why I had some encapsulated and others left out. Maybe then he won't just use them all as kindling for the fire.

Still need to do that with my Drum, Broadleaf 460, Demmit, O'Hara, and the Cobbs.

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Posted By: RC

1. About two weeks!

2. Just picked up my 2nd T206 today. Plan to focus just on Cincy Reds for now. I have to force myself to be selective.

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Posted By: joe

I only collect Detroit Players and I have all of those. Ed, God Bless for collecting any condition, I just can't do it. Here is my Green Cobb.
Good luck and have fun. If I was collecting the complete set, I certainly would be lowering my standards.

Joe



Ty Cobb, Spikes flying!

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Posted By: Joe Drouillard

Hello All,

B&B

Keep telling myself that I'm not collecting the set, but every week I keep finding one (on a good week two) in the mail. I'm closing in on 50 cards now; once you hit 50 T206s are you officially collecting the set?

Joe

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Posted By: joe brennan

C & C

In Rememberance of James W. Brennan Sr. 1924-1982. Dad, thanks for everything you did for me.

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Posted By: Dave Hornish

Lessee.....Bought my first in about 1982 or 1983, bought a couple more in the early 90's, started Brooklyn's in January '07 and have just decided to go for the whole enchilda, less the big 4. So, I have been collecting T206 for 25 years and have about 11 cards to show for it. I'll be picking the pace up though.

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Posted By: Tyler

I have just gotten into the set in the last 2 months or so. I've enjoyed this site soooo much since getting involved. This is my 1st post. I am at just under 6% right now, trying to figure out a budget. Sticking with 2,3,4 and 5's PSA (apologies to those who are raw or SGC collectors) It has really become my passion, and you guys are the ones I can talk to about it. All I have is time and I am looking so forward to the next couple years or so, I can't wait to complete the set (minus the big 4 until after my wedding on June 14th, then I'm going to go wild) Good luck to all and thanks for having me.

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Posted By: t206's

D & D. I've been collecting about 5 years. Bought my first couple at the '01 National. Now have almost 200, all PSA'd. Always fun to get a couple new ones. Good luck y'all.
Mike